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ChanceVLuck
I DO I DO I DO!!!!
meganical
Pappy55
I love the smell of Kordite in the morning.
iwyn
Anyone ever popped one with your nail? And it would leave a yellowish burnt color for like 3 days.
IWasToldThereWasCake
Wait, do they sell cap guns anymore? I haven’t seen any for years
insomniacbychoice
Wasted many a day with a few rolls of those and a brick
43rdpresident
Hammer from my grandpas garage. God rest that sweet mans soul.
DemSumBigAssRidges
This is point whoring at its finest!
Rifneno
FatNeckbeard
Can you buy these anymore?
JasmineTwo
Kilsim1v
I shoot muzzleloaders for competition, so I smell this all the time!
neallo
Oh, yeah. One of the smells of a 1960s -70s Australian summer. "Caps" and a poorly painted metal pistol...on my every xmas list 1966-73
valen00
did you get the red ring ones too? or were those more of a late 80s thing?
neallo
They were around later ( as you say 80s); I had grown out of my caps phase a long time before. I can recall seeing them & thinking: wt cap?
hairyfishsticks
Used to use a magnifying glass to light them up. Science!!!!
EyesOnICE
Remember the smell... I remember the smell of burning flesh I had 120 of these in my pocket and they detonated.
EyesOnICE
Blood everywhere burning flesh and my pocket non existent. I was had to hobble home and when i told my mother she just put peroxide on it.
lastminute
Probably not worth a bandaid. Blood had to be continuously running to require a bandaid
schrodingersasymmetric12gauge
My uncle has a couple great stories about scraping the dots off those to make bigger explosives. They tend to end with temp. hearing loss.
Trollydarollypolly
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
RlCKSANCHEZ
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LokiShinigami
Mmm burnt sulphur/gunpowder
mcd177
Ahhh. My child hood. If you fold them one on top of another and push a pin between them. Tape them up and add a wick. Well they bang nice
mcd177
Caution : They may go off pushing the pin threw. You have been warned. Or fold them one by one onto a pin. Look it up. It's out there.
peopleannoyme420
We used to drop cinder blocks on the rolls !!!! Oh the joy of being a kid- I can smell it now
alittlestitcious
CrowbarJones
JennaLand
I had that!
HiddenSanity
They still sell these.
IveGoneSmellBlind
bippityboppitybuttsex
Fun Fact: These were developed from the Maynard Tape Primer of the Springfield 1855 rifled musket.
KentuckyFriedChildren
I learned something today. Neat!
bippityboppitybuttsex
YW!... it didn't work very well in the 1855, once it got wet it was useless, so they switched to regular percussion caps.
bippityboppitybuttsex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_tape_primer
waspentalive
cap bomb - cast iron with a place to feed the roll into. Throw it up in the air, it lands head down - pop! Smell the boom!
PianoMan2112
I forgot I had one of these!
FroopyHood
Until you inevitably put too many caps in and it exploded...
waspentalive
Oh now I have to try this, how many is too many?
FroopyHood
As many that will fit. Going back 30+ years in the memory banks but the key was a tight fold.
JadeMcLeod
I still have a box of like, 20 rolls on my top shelf I haven't touched in 10 years. What should I do with them?
FroopyHood
Roll them out on the sidewalk and find a rock.
TrilobiteSushi
See if you can sell them on Ebay. The formulation of caps was changed a while back so new ones are wimpy, Try a roll and if they work Ebay.
Corona688
Not so much "wimpy" as "far less poisonous"
43rdpresident
Roll one into a cigar and try smoking it.
HOLAKOOO
hand them out to children.
pagingdrbob
As a smoker... you are evil!!
dinglydoo
Make some pennybombs with then!
dinglydoo
Take your littlelest Kind of Coin, put a roll of these around that Coin so that its a Ball, then put Tape around it, that its a Tape Ball ->
dinglydoo
And then throw that Thing against a hard Surface.
dinglydoo
Or maybe more then One of these, don't known anymore, its some Time since i did my last ;)
PianoMan2112
Fireplace. Or individual caps in soon-to-be-foemer friends' cigarettes.
pagingdrbob
As a smoker... you are evil!!
nominaltoactual2
Your devious..nice harmless prank... maybe.
steppstyle
Take a whole roll and hit it with a hammer. Love that smell!
ThatEffinCrusaderInWoT
My friend and I destroyed his dad's Dollar Store Hammer with those things
Baszmeg
Man. That really does bring back memories of being 9-yrs old.
Wakborder517
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wildebeestsarepeopletoo
I remember my ear ringing when I leaned in too close! Awesome!
rustyn9ne
Sounds like a goddamn shotgun blast
just4favs
I get really vivid memories from that. I wanna go back...
captainredbeard530
Used to sound like a gun being shot when I did this. We used to ride our bikes down to the .99c store to buy large amounts of these.
Ryang256
And the sound of your ears ringing for the next 2 hours.
swinglinered
we used cinder blocks to make sure we got all of them
Eightysixbobber
I did this one, got too excited and cracked my head open with the claw of a claw hammer. Blood everywhere, still sounded good though!
Nukls
dah2001
I did this with a whole box once and it hurt my ears.
biblioteker
What?
redfish225
My heart is melting rn....
notwhoutink
Burnt gunpowder. I wonder why it isn't a more popular scent.
IPeeInCheerios
These don't use gunpowder. It's an impact sensitive explosive. Gun powder can't be set off with anything other than heat.
notwhoutink
Maybe friction?
IPeeInCheerios
Look up "Armstrong's mixture" also, black powder is incredibly weak in amounts that small. It would make a poof of smoke and that's it.
ceebee6563127001
I'm with the hammer. Surprised I didn't shoot my eye out
CliveWarren81
Used to bust them with my fingernails
ilovefluids
Same....then switch to a coin
arbsbuhpuh
Same!
NinerDuck
me too
43rdpresident
Pussy. I ground my teeth on them.
CliveWarren81
I did that with your mom's teeth.
43rdpresident
huh, funny that. I always thought it was her meth using that ruined her teeth.
CliveWarren81
Well, it was a cumulative effect.
43rdpresident
Didn't help her any being British born.
2niglets1pornocup
all the cap guns I had used caps like these:
Lendue
Used to squeeze the contents of one into another. Extra loud!!
FilthyRapscallions
They had a more satisfying bang, but I always preferred more shots between reloads.
gerthzilla
Used to put these under small rocks in the road ... I know it's a dick move . I was young
thundercactus
I remember when they came out with 12 shot caps and it BLEW. MY. MIND. 50% larger clips! (They're more like clips than mags)
HowAboutThatUpdog
My cousin has a cap rifle that uses those and shooting all six and reloading it is one of the most satisfying things you can do
just4thelolz
I knew only those. How do you even load the paper ones in a gun?
Texanhick20
I had one that used the caps and not the paper roll, no idea how old it was, but it didn't look like a toy gun....
traintracker
Remember to wear glove
lastminute
We didn’t get gloves, only the faux leather belt & holster.
just4thelolz
Man, I was so sad when the mechanism of my toy western gun finally broke. It was like my coolest toy.
kruttlapp
My username sooo relevant. At last!
KungFuFetus
Well look at captain money bags over here.....=)
Kronzor
Pretty sure you could buy those at the dollar store...
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
You can now, yeah. You're showing your age, or lack thereof.
Silverbackgojira
My parents would get me cap guns but take the caps away immediately
TheLetterKay
Couldn't burn yourself on those. Pansy.
antibullseye
Bought 5 packs, emptied the powder out with a knife then hit it with a hammer
leftbanana
The older style were belt-fed; 30+ rounds before reloading. You were constantly reloading the new caps.
ChicanoBatman
Found recently at Fred Meyer. I use them to train Labradors for hunting. Shoot cap across lawn from pups before feeding then. Pavlovian
cwblackandyellow
There was the Jenny, the Carson, the Sterling, and I think one more I can't remember..?
Ihavesex
Roll caps are the superior caps because you could smash them with rocks
funnyaccepted
I remember the blisters from reloading all of them in one day.
AxelYamanaka
I had a gun that used those. Only ever got one shot that worked
Ryebread91
And we're loud as heck.
BranDohCalrissian
It doesn't matter what kind you had, the caps and the guns were made by Ja-ru
EfficientLeather1
Ja Rule makes rap son not a cap gun
lastminute
My younger bro had these, too many duds. Just trying to find a ring that'd pop was their main interest.
mountainmintman
So your parents were upper middle class rich huh?
cujo67
FoxySpirit
They weren't that expensive I think. Plus I only got them for carneval.
BahamutBBob
When I was old enough for cap guns, they had these, but my older brothers had guns that used the tape.
Metallica93
I didn't know what the original post pertained to, but my friend had two, silver revolver cap guns that used these. They kicked ass!
Tornadotaco
Paper ones were great, you missed out. Bet you can't even light the plastic ones on fire?
Metallica93
I've seen a lot of shit for someone my age, but never the paper ones before. Guess they were all phased out by the late 90s.
Tornadotaco
Yeah, presumably because plastic ones were safer because kids couldn't get as creative with them.
TheInventor
Used to put these between 2 heavy bolts with a nut holding them together, then throw them. BOLT BANGERS! Man they sounded like a Magnum 44.
Squagglenater
We would get a shit ton of the paper caps and wrap them around a penny untill it was like a marble. Man it was loud.
RandyBats
We just hit them with a hammer
DerpNerpem
Hahaaa never did a bolt banger but they reminded me of these things http://www.mortartubes.net/161-large_default/throwing-dart-cap-bomb.jpg
thundercactus
holy shit I had one of those and used it like....a handful of times lol
ItsNotASchoonerItsASailboat
I'm having trouble visualizing how that makes them explode, but in interested in the details if you're bored enough :)
TheInventor
You screwed 2 bolts together, ie bolt,nut,bolt. But before you screwed in the 2nd bolt you put the cap in and very carefully tightened it.
ItsNotASchoonerItsASailboat
Ah, so the caps are part squished? Now it's makin sense
TheInventor
Yep, you'd cut 1 or 2 ring caps off. Sometimes it'd go off as you'd be tightening it. No real danger but you'd shit your pants nonetheless.
fuzzypiglet
I just wrote about bolt bangers! We also made them with normal caps. Are you in the uk?
TheInventor
Yep UK. I reckon if the kids did them today the armed police would be round in a flash.
ijerkofftothingsyoureport
At least they wouldn’t get shot like in the states
anr69
Here in NZ we shaved the heads off matches and used those instead. Called them "bolt bombs" fucking dangerous!
BisexualAtheistMinister
it's not that hard to make explosives from those
Hereagain
Right? Totally awesome
BisexualAtheistMinister
i wonder if anyone ever put them on airsoft pellets for more boom
AverageHouseCat
That was the upgrade
JustDontCare
I somehow had both without my mum ever buying me one. I think they were my older cousins.
mikenco
Yep, They were a later evolution. No where near as explosive, nor as cheap as the paper rolls.
ThemHardNutz
I couldn’t afford either of them
AlexxStratten
I used both, paper was cheaper though.
RandyBats
They came later, but they weren't an "upgrade" by any means.
StaticVoidFalafel
Yep. If you can afford it. Now I know where All my childhood saving went
P2Mc28
No way man: /a/BP9Iw - it used those rolls. You can see where it ejected the spent paper near the handle. Full auto yes!
ohjohnboy
Wow I totally forgot about these. Memory unlocked, thanks OP! You completed my sidequest.
Fusionxtras
Would never have known they were the same thing, my friend and i took the revolver gun caps, took the powder out had compression explosions
cuntymcuntface
We'd fill .22 casings with the stuff, add a fuse, and clamp them shut. It's a wonder no eyes or fingers were lost.
TyrannosaurusMex
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0d/26/d4/0d26d4b4d997374f4b47534e436b3a7d--guns-vintage-toys.jpg
LosPer
LOL, I got one of these out of the back of a comic book! It was so lame compared to the ad!
TerrorLTZ
i remember the pain... those things hit hard on skin
TyrannosaurusMex
Here was the less-lethal that I used more often.
CrewDogofthePort
I grew up with the roll. But they just sell those now. Just got my son a cap gun at DG.
Wakborder517
I was in the transition era. I was fortunate enough to use both
DerpNerpem
Same here
RiftSkipper
So I was I till little twisted me was found using the rolls as an improvised ant killer
Wakborder517
Hmmm I’m intrigued
Ginkawa
how was that an upgrade? those are terrible.
Yumstar82
Loading felt "cooler".
FrozenCoast
They worked better in actual cap guns. Not as fun otherwise.
Tornadotaco
They cost more, so the companies made more money. That's about it. Although the paper ones would misfire more often.
Ginkawa
But you got approximately a zillion more bangs so who cares? At least that's how I saw it. I couldn't have them myself anyway.
Ginkawa
I could only occasionally play with my friends cap gun, I mean. My parents didn't do toy guns. Only real ones. Which probably sounds